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...ASGER JORN, 50, a Dane and a former pupil of Leger, makes art scampering with the mythical trolls who lurk in arctic forest shadows. Jorn has dissolved the haunted figures of Nolde and Munch. In his equally demoniac fantasy, man remains only as dismembered memories in a decorative dream, a roiling Rorschach test of tortured, teasing sensibilities...
That day, Meyer, Joseph Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis, and Montreal's Paul Emile Cardinal Leger presented the petition to the Pope. Next morning, the prelates learned, again through Cardinal Tisserant, that the Pope had sided with the presidents; they also discovered that he had overruled the council on two other matters. On his own authority, the Pope had made 19 changes in the final draft of a schema on Christian unity that had already been accepted by the council in chapter-by-chapter votes. Some of the changes clearly modified the ecumenical intentions of the prelates. The text...
...assigned to sketch the circus. Barnum & Bailey was so pleased that it gave him a free entrance pass. He followed the American artists' trail to Paris, where he made his own toy circus in which he sat performing like some child Gargantua for such luminaries as Fernand Leger, Joan Miro, and Jean Cocteau...
Motion makes Calder's imagery. Line meanders, mobiles wobble, stabiles broad-jump. His art is open and practical, restless and even coarse. Blunt as his shears permit, it also is in love with innocence and in charge of material reality. It is "100% American," as Leger once stated, yet as international an expression as any man who ever made happiness with his hands...
During the seven years that Murphy painted and thereafter, no honors, few shows and little comment came his way. In the big-league company of his good friends Picasso, Leger and Braque he perceived that he "was, not going to be first-rate," so he quit art with the argument that he "couldn't stand second- rate painting." Just before he died, Murphy learned that his friend MacLeish had given his 1927 Wasp and Pear to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Murphy was greatly pleased; he had not known when he stopped painting that his art would...